# Choose between a peaceful death that helps no one, or a heroic but agonizing expiration

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 15, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-between-a-peaceful-death-that-helps-no-one-or-a-heroic-but-agonizing-expiration/589176 "2011-07-15T21:12:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-between-a-peaceful-death-that-helps-no-one-or-a-heroic-but-agonizing-expiration/589176/21 "2011-07-16T03:08:30Z")

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For an hours pain when I’m dying anyway? I consider it a fair payback for Athena’s gracious warning that it’s time to do all the things I’ve been putting off in the last week.

If I’m dying anyway, no way am I spending 60hrs of the next week working.

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**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-between-a-peaceful-death-that-helps-no-one-or-a-heroic-but-agonizing-expiration/589176/22 "2011-07-17T10:03:04Z")

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I’d rather go out with my boots on/guns blazing/spittin’ fire…

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